Sd.Kfz. 182 Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B "Königstiger" — Turmnummer 124

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The charging knight. The long 88. Nearly 70 tonnes of the final word in German heavy tank design.

You've seen this insignia before. A red knight on horseback, lance lowered, charging across the turret. It's one of the most recognizable vehicle markings of the entire war. And on Tiger 124, that knight rode into combat on the most formidable turreted tank Germany ever built.

The Königstiger was the end of the line. The last evolution. Everything Germany learned about heavy tank design — from the Panzer IV to the Tiger I to the Panther — culminated here. Nearly 69.8 tonnes of combat weight. 150mm of sloped frontal glacis armor. A turret front of 180mm. And behind that armor, the weapon that made the King Tiger the most feared vehicle on any battlefield it entered: the 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 — the long 88. The most powerful tank gun Germany fielded in the war. At combat ranges, nothing the Allies or the Soviets had could match it from the front. Nothing.

The production-turret Königstiger — the Serienturm with the flat, heavily armored turret front — was the mature version. The one that went to war in numbers. A Maybach HL 230 P 30 producing 700 PS. A sustained road speed of 38 km/h. A five-man crew sealed inside a machine that was designed to hold ground against anything that rolled toward it.

Tiger 124 wore the charging knight of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 505 — an independent heavy tank battalion committed to the Eastern Front during the desperate autumn and winter of 1944-45. That insignia wasn't decorative. It was identification. And if you saw it on a turret, you were looking at a vehicle that belonged to a formation built for one purpose: to be the hardest thing on the battlefield.

This is not a generic King Tiger. This is Turmnummer 124. A specific vehicle. A specific unit. A specific moment in the war. The kind of tank that armor enthusiasts don't just collect — they study.

THE KIT

This is a Heritage Line release — our premium tier, built by the same manufacturing partner behind the Wittmann's Tiger I S04 and the Lucky Tiger S33.

What you're building:

• 2,143 pieces in 1:25 scale — our largest King Tiger ever
• 11 inches long (hull to hull). 6 inches wide. 5 inches tall. The Königstiger has presence on any shelf.
• Zimmerit anti-magnetic mine coating molded directly onto the bricks — not printed, not stickered. Molded into the pieces themselves. You'll feel the texture under your fingers as you build.
• Functioning suspension — the road wheels move. The weight settles. The stance is real.
• Full interior detail — turret basket, breech, driver's station, hull interior. You're not building a shell. You're building what the five-man crew lived inside.
• 100% pad-printed markings — zero stickers. The charging knight of the 505th, Turmnummer 124, pad-printed directly onto the bricks. That knight isn't a decal you apply. It's already there.
• Rotating turret
• Opening hatches
• Working tracks
• No crew figures included

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Retail: $174.99

YOUR INTRO PRICE: $144.99

$30 off before the public ever sees it. Orders open next week — Battalion gets first claim.

If you know the knight, you know why this matters. If you don't, look at it. You will.